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No, not really.

The main expense is proving your drug works. It’s not really fair to describe that as incurred by FDA regs.

And in any case: drugs are (surprisingly) not a major driver of healthcare costs in the US.

The things that are uniquely costly in American healthcare are administrative overhead and doctors + nurses.

Go read KFF reporting on it.



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